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About Contact Metal Forum Letters Mailing ListInterview: Lori Bravo
the anus.com metal development team was lucky to catch lori bravo during a break from work with her new band, Raped. she was kind enough to consent to an off-the-cuff interview which had some remarkable results.
as those who are fans of early death metal know, lori and her band nuclear death were instrumental in developing the genre in its early days. still carrying touches of thrash from the previous generation, she and her bandmates forged forward with a unique and devastating style of music. read on to learn what inflames her passion and willpower toward the making of metal.
1. nuclear death sounded to me like it descended halfway from the progressive extremist speed metal ("thrash") of the previous decade, mixing that with its fundamentally deathy influence. if you could name something that you'd heard in the time leading up to the creation of the nuclear death works, what influenced you the most?
2. what art do you enjoy outside of metal?
8. if you were suspended in a reality where another nuclear death album might be made, what in your mind might it sound like?
13. are you a large fan of any mainstream media?
22. is saddam hussein a CIA plant?
I would say...Discharge,Venom,Mercyful Fate,Black Flag and Russian Classical.
2. what art do you enjoy outside of metal?
Actually...I do not listen to alot of 'metal'.....I am into punk and hardcore, jazz and fusion, classical, indie-rock.....and of course the works of Goya, Picasso, Bosch, Giger, Mapelthorpe, Giger, Rimbaud, Smith, Morrison, Plath, Baudelaire, Whitman, Kerouac, Manson, Wilde, Cobain, Saffo........etc.
3. do you consider art to have relative grades of complexity?
Of
course...but I also....believe the most simplest of lines can be
most
complex in nature.
4. is your current band metal, or a metal fusion? i ask because many
metal artists choose after an underground success to turn to the
mainstream somewhat, mostly looking for new worlds to conquer.
I do not
believe that I have even achieved what you dubbed as
'successful'.....My
new band is called RAPED...and it is a fusion of my
anger,jealousy,hatred,hopefulness and liberation from
boyfriends,bullshit
and sexism!!!I call it arte-sexed-dark-edged-fuckyourface-off
music....or
GRRRLCORE!!
5. what do you think about drugs, group sex and fascism?
Drugs are
how we as
a society seem to cope...I mean EVERYBODY'S on SOMETHING!!!Group
sex is
great...do it SAFELY....I am in the sex business..I
strip....SAFTEY..PEOPLE....I CAN'T STRESS THAT POINT
ENOUGH!!!Fascism in
shit...but it is a big part of life.....I don't think it is going to
go
away...so we,as artists,need to address the issue and alert the
public on
how much it ruins us internally and externally as many times as we
can
write a song ,paint a canvas, make a film or make a statement!
6. if you saw a black spot on a purely white wall, would you
consider
the wall to have an entrance, or the spot to have a
boundary?
Entrance...I
don't beleive in boundaries...that is limited to me...I don't like
limits!!!!
7. what in your mind are the usefulness of these states: caprice and
serendipity?
I Love impulsiveness in all things!!!! Spur of the
moment......A whim of change....some of the best things are built
from this
lovely little spurt!Beautiful 'accidents'.....serendipity is how I
have
managed to write every fucking thing that is good and paint a canvas
that
is worth viewing!!!!! I am a creative FUCKUP!!!
8. if you were suspended in a reality where another nuclear death album might be made, what in your mind might it sound like?
If Steve
and I
did another...I think it would be an in your face muse....RAPED is
the
result of what ND spawned.
9. if you had four minutes to give advice to a young metal band, it might be...?
Don't sign anything without a lawyer, never compromise your principles, be yourselves, listen to your inner voices and take NO
shit!!!!
10. what do you think about commerce, morality and the holiday of easter?
Trade and buy/sell rules the world...enjoy
it...Sexually-speaking...let's fuck!Even I have morals.....Have
CLASS
people! You can be Hardcore without losing your
integrity....Easter.....I
like the iconography aspects and rituals.....rising from
death...aint it
sweet.....Bunnies for everyone!!!!!
11. i like the shorter song format with some bands, offhandedly
naming carcass and DRI, as it allows a fragment of a consciousness
to
momentarily express itself and vanish, where a full song might have
to artificially include other subject matter to flesh out the shit.
then again, if you write your lyrics when wasted or careless, what
flows might be pure subconscious dialogue and therefore might be
effective. it seemed to me some study went into the nuclear death
lyrics, no matter how hasty their creation. what sorts of ideas and
systems of thought were influencing you at the
time?
Alcohol,drugs,reading,sex,fear and dreams.
12. what do you think of capitalism, christianity and zionism?
Good
and
bad....I hate corporate-owned anything...but what are you going to
do....do
it yourself and put it on the net......christianity has been so
fucking
twisted and raped of its origins and beliefs,honestly,I think
Christ would
want to kill those fuckers,I believe every people should be able to
'go
home'...we all deserve our place.
13. are you a large fan of any mainstream media?
I am pop
cultured,you know?
I like anything that I find interesting!
14. often relationships in bands are as stressed as two cops dating.
do you have any advice in the most general sense in this
area?
Fuck....it's
a marriage,respect eachother.
15. do you own guns or dogs, and what kind of vehicle do you drive?
do you see these questions as destructive to the persona of a metal
artist and therefore not worth answering? i hope so, but if not let
me know. i want one of the new glock .357s to take out that pesky
streetlight.
I own a 45 and a single-shot....I am slave to 5 cats...I
cycle..I never have driven.
16. the aura combined of artistic form and content that is
metaphorically relevant in a wrenching evocation of the sickness and
desires of the current time, if present intelligently, can form the
basis for powerful metal. do these ideas "strike a chord" with any
of
your own?
I think we are a highly intelligent form of music.....we
present
to the listener what one may or may not want to face.Look...if you
have
shit lyrics...I don't care how great the music is.....I won't give
you a
second thought.
17. do you have plans to write a book?
Yes......I have poetry,as well
as a
tell-all in the worx
18. if i were a gangbanger, anytime i shot someone, i'd say "you'd
better hope for reincarnation!" do you think reincarnation is
likely,
or is it another for the "wishful thinking" file?
I think it is
bullshit.....This is MY fucking unique soul..when I die that is it!
19. have you heard burzum, dead brain cells or absurd?
No....turn me
on......
20. what do you think are the faults of www.anus.com/metal, and why
do you think many people hate us?
Because you are too intelligent for
most
dumbfuck metal-heads.....fuck 'em...you RULE!!!!
21. do you visit any bulletin boards, chat rooms or use an instant
messenger?
Oh yes....My s/n is insectbride.....I am a member of
Hole's
message board,Distillers,TSOL's...oh yessssssssss!!!!
22. is saddam hussein a CIA plant?
Could be.....dunno....I think he
is an
android.
23. if you had no limitations and could make any music you would
choose, how would your music differ?
Listen to RAPED....I have no
limitations!!!!I know what I like.
24. what makes arizona for you an attractive place of residence?
after i drove through i considered moving, as it had a laid backness
to the city.
I hate it.....That is why I am moving to LA,permanently
in
May!!!!I love the filth,corruption,trashedout ways of big cities...I
am
from Chicago...for fuxsake!!!!
many thanks for any answers you can do. some of these questions will
be unanswerable, but i have designed them based on your other
interview so that you will have fun with them, i hope. i will send
you finished copy and we'll cut any that don't succeed. hails and
vomits...
..Thanx...I had a great time with your interview.......one
of the
best I have gotten in a while.....actually, I found ALL
answerable!!!! I
can rap for hours,Love.......New Nuclear Death/RAPED contact is my
Email!!!!
IN DEATH AND CRUELTY....VO/Lori
The Christian concept of a god--the god as the patron of the sick, the god as a spinner of cobwebs, the god as a spirit--is one of the most corrupt concepts that has ever been set up in the world: it probably touches low-water mark in the ebbing evolution of the god-type. God degenerated into the contradiction of life. Instead of being its transfiguration and eternal Yea! In him war is declared on life, on nature, on the will to live! God becomes the formula for every slander upon the "here and now," and for every lie about the "beyond"! In him nothingness is deified, and the will to nothingness is made holy! . . . - F.W. Nietzsche, "The Antichrist"
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